Communication and Collaboration Tools for Businesses in Pandemic

Individual Report

Table of Contents
Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Identification as well as discussion of various communication and collaboration tools
and how they have helped different businesses for surviving in current pandemic...........1
Advantages, disadvantages, suitability as well as applications of cloud storage as well as
computing..................................................................................................................................3
Comparison and contrast of positive and negative factors of services and products which
are being sold offline and online..............................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Information as well as communication technology is a wider term for information
technology that defines for communication technologies. It consists of wireless connection,
mobiles phones, computer, software, video conferencing as well as other media tools.
Information as well as communication technology is a wider term which is used for information
technology which creates unified communication as well as integration of telecommunication as
well as computers which enables users in access, store, transmit as well as manipulating
information (Frank, Dalenogare and Ayala, 2019). This report is based on information and
communication technology which is used in businesses for carrying their business practices. This
report includes identification and discussion of different communication and collaboration tools
along with how they have helped different businesses for surviving in pandemic situation,
advantages, disadvantages, suitability and application of cloud storage as well as computing,
comparison and contrast of positive as well as negative factors of services or products which are
being sold online or offline along with it conclusion.
MAIN BODY
Identification as well as discussion of various communication and collaboration tools and
how they have helped different businesses for surviving in current pandemic.
Communication and collaboration tools helps in businesses to collaborate. The objective of
collaboration technique is to support a group of more two businesses for accomplishing its
common goal. communication and collaboration tools could be of non-technological nature
(Schroeder, 2018). By taking an example of Indus net technologies some of communication and
collaboration tools that could be used by a company are as follows:
 Slack: It is a famous as well as well-crafted communication and collaboration tool
platform that offers instant messaging, powerful messaging search as well as transferring
files. it has many characteristics as well as dozens of integration through other tools like
trello or intercom.
 Flow dock: This collaboration tool is a group as well as private chat platform which
carries interesting characteristics in team inbox that aggregates notification from other
mediums such as customer support tools, Asana as well as Twitter.
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 Proof hub: It is an operation management tools which offers a integrative suite of
collaboration as well as project management roles. With this collaboration tools
Company could organise files, monitor project, plan as well as discuss with their
colleagues or stakeholders (Parkman, Litz and Gromik, 2018). This collaboration tools
helps in in understanding about reviewing and approving files through an online proofing
tool.
 Trello: This communication and collaboration tool has intriguing interface which
resembles solitaire. This tool it is easy to learn as well as work well for ensuring projects
and assigning activities.
 Google docs: This communication and collaboration tool includes its documentation as
well as sheet facilities that are developed in allowing teams to edit files at same time
along with saving there are changes automatically.
 GoToMeeting: This communication as well as collaboration tool is an online video
conferencing application which allows user to scan dual meetings as well as share their
screens in businesses. It is one of most famous video tools through millions of business
users in corporate world.
 Ryver: This collaboration tool helps company in communicating better by creating
various teams and categorising them easily for carrying their conversation easily in small
groups for carrying their business practices. It provides a set of filters which allows
businesses to control who sees their information in terms of post that have been marked
by them.
As communication and collaboration tools helps various businesses for surviving in
coronavirus pandemic situation in carrying their business practices (Naik, Choudhury and Park,
2019). It helps in various terms that are as follows:
 Provides clarity about work needs: As digital workplace helps in managing projects as
well as mind Stones in a more seamless way by providing department heads a
comprehensive dashboard which allows them to manage products with more effectively
in coronavirus situation in a virtual manner.
 Improving communication: By using these collaboration tools it helps in stabilizing
effective communication channels for remote teams for working closely together. With
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